Microsoft on Wednesday launched a lure attack in Washington to seek government approval for the $70 billion deal. buy video game company Activision BlizzardHe said that he would not grant privileges to his own games in app stores. Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella and chairman Brad Smith said at a press conference in Washington that they …
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HAPPY HOURby Marlowe Granados “Charm,” a professor once told me, “is nothing.” I was 21 at the time, hoping to write and about to move to New York: I now see this as practical advice. Isa, the protagonist of Marlowe Granados’ first novel, “Happy Hour,” needs no such advice. Twenty-one-year-old and new to New York, …
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Crab mocks D’Aguiar by telling him he’s only interested in putting his name in front of a book. Cancer calls out “that ridiculous stationary bike of yours.” I am happy to report that “Plagues of the Year” ends with cautious optimism. Cancer had to come down. Grue is a Norwegian writer and academic with a …
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